The 5 Most Popular Social Media Content Curation Tools

June 1, 2012

Last week, I talked about how social media content curation could help you to never run out of ideas for your network marketing blog. As promised, I will go over the most popular and helpful content curation tools that you could use for free to produce great content for your audience.

Content curation tools have become the new generation’s digital content platforms which had evolved from just gathering links or content aggregation such as Delicious, Digg or Google News. Keep in mind though that these tools are simply enablers and that you do need to produce original content to satisfy the search engines.

Scoop.it

You’ve probably heard of Scoop.it a dozen times and it’s no surprise as this is probably one of the best sites for curating content right now. Scoop.it lets you present your social media content in a custom-themed magazine page that you can easily embed on your site and/or share on your social media sites. If you choose the latter, you can opt to use a widget that you can configure to suit your needs or through the RSS feed. For Tumblr and WordPress blog users, you can connect your republished content with a topic page.

Scoop.it also helps you aggregate content from the sources that you have identified and set up from within the site as well as from other curators that you’re following. There are a lot of remarkable curators on site although you do need to take some time to dig through the muddle.

You don’t need to worry about costs though since this platform offers a free subscription that is effective enough for average users. However, if you wish to make use of your own brand, domain or sub-domain in addition to analytics that you can link to Google Analytics account, then you’ve got to upgrade to their Business subscription.

Storify

If you are looking for a tool that would help you tell a story coming using the best aggregated content from various sources, then Storify should more than meet your need. It is the perfect example of a “Chronology” concept for curating social media content while letting you comment and provide your own point of view about the event.

Bloggers, tweeps and journalists who cover current events widely use Storify for this reason. You can use Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, Disqus, SoundCloud and of course, Storify itself to build your story. You can also capture content from other sources like GetGlue, StockTwits, Chute and BreakingNews.

As with most content curation tools, you have the option to export your stories to your Tumblr, WordPress and Posterous sites. It is also possible to share your stories on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. What’s nice about Storify as well is your ability to email your stories to your subscribers if you’re using MailChimp!

Bundlr

Similar to the ever growing social media network, Pinterest, Bundlr is your “clipper site” that lets you clip and save images, videos, text clips and even code snippets. Like with other curation tools, Bundlr allows you to add comments and share your bundles or clips on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn which is great for social media content curation.

If you upgrade to their Pro version, you will have the option to allow other curators to contribute to your page or if you are simply curating for personal use, choose to keep it private.

Like Scoop.it, you can embed your page on your network marketing blog too which will update itself as soon as you have new clips. Likewise, you can also use the RSS feed to do this.

Bagtheweb.com, a clipper site that features some of Scoop.it’s functionalities.

BlogBridge

BlogBridge has almost all of the features that you would need for a news or modern content curator including analytics and is actually one of the original curation tools on the Internet. It started as an open source project that received support from many people around the world. Thus, its flagship product, the BlogBridge Desktop is and will remain to be free for anyone who wishes to download it and even install it on an unlimited number of units.

You can also mess around with the code to customize it to fit your needs. And, it does not only work on PCs though as it will also run on Mac and Linux machines.

Pearltrees

Pearltrees is getting popular by the minute among social media content curators. Although it works like other bookmarking sites where you can “pearl” a page that you like, connect your Peartrees account with your Facebook or Twitter accounts as well as import links from Delicious; Pearltrees goes beyond social bookmarking.

It lets you socially connect with other expert curators who are interested on a similar topic and cooperatively work and build that “Pearl” together. This is great for social media marketers who are not experts about a particular topic but are keen on providing their audience information about it.

Visual by nature, it also allows you to organize your interests into folders letting you build it up by adding pages upon pages of content that you have pearled. The system also helps you build content by presenting you with related pearls that you can add to your Pearl or only the branch that you’re interested in.

Once you’re satisfied with your pearls, you can now share them via Facebook, Twitter, your site (embed) or email. Interestingly and as needed, you have the option to export the links from a categorized pearl and open it with MS Excel.

These are just five of the most used social media content curation tools today. There are loads more out there and depending on your needs, you can opt for the free or paid subscriptions. Have you used any of these? Feel free to share your experience!

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Kevin K. Lau

Kevin K. Lau is a Network Marketing Business Coach and Social Media Consultant. His business is centered on teaching people how to build an Online Network Marketing Business using Social Media.

Kevin literally spent over $50,000 in research and study to learn and master the art of Internet Marketing and Social Media Marketing so that he could teach people and businesses how to effectively grow their online presence.

Since then, he has personally worked with some of the top gurus in the industry including Mari Smith, Russell Brunson, Jerry Chen, Mike Dillard, Jonathan Budd, Katie Freiling, and many others.